Abkapselung:

Er hat sich abgekapselt und vor sich hingedacht, ein paar Jahre lang.

Und was hat bei dieser Abkapselung herausgeschaut?

Postmodernism:

via Steve Stewart-Williams:

Daniel Dennett:

“Postmodernism, the school of ‘thought’ that proclaimed ‘There are no truths, only interpretations’ has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for ‘conversations’ in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.”

Behavioral Change:

Charles:

"Human behavior can change due to one (human) feeling threatened. A sexual threat. An economic threat. A threat to your physical person. Etc. Others conform to the behavior of those that feel threatened. Yet others conform to those that conformed. I have seem more and more of this the last while. And from people I have known for years — whether IRL or online."

Google Search:

Charles:

"It feels like the long-tail is gone from Google Search.

"Gems" that I used to be able to discover from Google Search results, by looking at page after page after page of results — are gone (from the Google Search results)!

Including stuff I know used to be there — gone!

I even checked some "gems" that I discovered many many years ago (from Google Search).

The URL for those "gems" still work.

But they seem completely gone from Google Search."

Tagesende:

Der Tag, der geht zu Ende,

Ich reich' ihm meine Hände,

Wärst Du länger doch,

Gäb's ein paar Stunden noch!

Sentimentality:

Camilla Paglia:

"Bush rejects Shelley’s “sentimentality”: “His heroes and martyrs are all alike, all physically weak and spiritually lonely, pale youths who perish, or are ready to perish, unupbraiding. They are all variations on the portrait of himself as an effeminate romantic idealist.” Fifty years ago, these words were meant to produce a shudder of distaste in the manly reader, but time and the revolution in sex roles have now made Bush’s prosecutorial judgment sound value-free."

Erholung und Zeit:

Tiefe Erholung durch die Berührung mit der Zeitlosigkeit.